OPERATION_DATE_AFTER_ISSUE

Operation date cannot be after the issue date

Category: Invoices


HTTP status	`422` Unprocessable Content
Retry	After fixing the cause

When it happens

operation_date is later than the invoice's issue date. The operation date is when the goods were delivered or the service was provided, and it cannot be in the future of the invoice that documents it.

How to fix it

Send an operation_date on or before the issue date, or omit it when it is the same day.

Retry

Not as is: the same request fails the same way. Fix the cause described above, then send the request again, under a new Idempotency-Key if the body changed.

Returned by

The operations where this code is most likely. The list is not exhaustive.

Rules that cite this code

DAT-003 The operation date is never after the issue date nor over twenty years old

Example response

When this error occurs, the API answers 422 Unprocessable Content with a JSON body of this shape:

{
  "type": "https://docs.beel.es/errors/OPERATION_DATE_AFTER_ISSUE_DATE",
  "title": "OPERATION_DATE_AFTER_ISSUE_DATE",
  "detail": "Operation date cannot be after the issue date",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "OPERATION_DATE_AFTER_ISSUE_DATE",
    "message": "Operation date cannot be after the issue date",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-05-21T10:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}